How to Make a Mailing List in Gmail

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This wikiHow teaches you how to create a list of Gmail contacts that you can email all at once. You cannot create a mailing list from within the Gmail mobile app, nor can you select your mailing list as a recipient in the Gmail mobile app.

If you're logged into the wrong account, click your profile icon in the upper-right side of the page and then either select the proper account (if it's signed in) or click Add account and enter your email address and password when prompted.

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Select contacts. Hover your mouse over a contact's profile picture (or their first initial if they don't have a picture), then click the checkbox that appears in place of their picture or first initial and repeat this process for each contact you want to add.

Enter your label's name. In the "To" field at the top of the "New Message" window, type in the name of the group. You should see the group's name and a preview of a few of its contacts appear below the "To" field.

Go into a conversation with the contact you desire to remove from the group, or the person's G+ profile. Hover over the profile picture/name, and a drop-down menu of the group(s) the person is in should come up. Un-select the box of the group from which you wish to remove the contact.

I want to make a contact group with email addresses that I do not want permanently in my Contacts. Can I make a list using the emails rather than my contacts (like I can in MSOutlook)?

Community Answer

You can create a list of the emails in a spreadsheet with each email in a different cell of the spreadsheet. When you want to email them, just open the spreadsheet and copy the entire row of email addresses. Then, go to your Gmail and paste them into the "To" field. This will put all the email addresses into your outgoing email without creating them as contacts.

With contact groups, you can easily organize your contacts making it easier to email a specific set of people. For example, if you created a contact group called "Soccer club," you could just send a message to that group, rather than sending out an email to 50 different people. Never leave somebody off an email again. To create a contact group: Click Gmail at the top-left corner of your Gmail page, then choose Contacts. Select contacts that you want to add to a group, click the Groups button, then create new. Enter the name of the group. Click OK.

Tips

You can also access your list of contacts by clicking ⋮⋮⋮ in the top-right corner of the Gmail page, clicking More at the bottom of the resulting drop-down menu, and clicking Contacts in the drop-down menu.

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